[ltp] Why use acpi for suspend?

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:20:23 -0400, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
> Frederik Wagner wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Nick Bower wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Thanks, that's news to me - I assumed the bios was doing the suspend as
> >>I've never configured APM, and apmd is not running (although I'll admit
> >>that it is installed now that I've checked).
> >
> >
> > In principle for apm the bios _is_ doing the suspend work. With acpi
> > the OS is responsible for all the stuff...
> >
> >
> >>I installed tpb and perhaps this may be triggering apm for a suspend?  I
> >>can't think how else the FN+F4 could be intercepted.  I guess I should
> >>try and configure tpb work with acpi then.
> >
> >
> > AFAIK the some of the Fn combinations are handelt by the bios anyway.
> > They alway produce an event (also for acpi) for all the other
> > combination, which are not working out of the box, install the
> > great ibm_acpi module, which came up some weeks ago... And don't
> > forget the newest acpi kernel patch...
> >
> 
> Where can that "great ibm_acpi module" be found?

http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/

but seriously, check the ltp archives first.

Alex